frontal cortex

Anterior portion of the neocortex, lying anterior to the central sulcus in humans. It is bounded by the parietal cortex posteriorly and the temporal cortex laterally[NIFSTD,modified]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the frontal cortex is

Anterior portion of the neocortex, lying anterior to the central sulcus in humans. It is bounded by the parietal cortex posteriorly and the temporal cortex laterally[NIFSTD,modified]. The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the frontal cortex is

It sits within the nervous system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the frontal cortex connects to

The atlas records 25 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of frontal lobe.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the frontal cortex. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as cortex of frontal lobe, frontal lobe cortex, gray matter of frontal lobe, grey matter of frontal lobe and frontal neocortex. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001870, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: frontal lobe.
• A kind of: cortex of cerebral lobe.
• contains: anterior ascending limb of lateral sulcus, anterior horizontal limb of lateral sulcus, anterior subcentral sulcus, Brodmann (1909) area 45, caudal middle frontal gyrus and diagonal sulcus, and 12 more.
• subtype: left frontal lobe and right frontal lobe.
• contributes to morphology of: orbitofrontal cortex and primary motor cortex.
• connects: central sulcus.

Questions

Where is the frontal cortex?

It sits within the nervous system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What does the frontal cortex connect to?

Part of: frontal lobe.

Is the frontal cortex the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.